Category Archives: Short Films

“Seat 22-Trans-Siberian Odyssey” is a Cinematic Short Film through Russia, Mongolia and China Directed By Stanislas Giroux.

Filmed, Edited and Directed by: Stanislas Giroux

Music Composed by: Two Steps From Hell (“Starfall”)

Filmmaker Stanislas Giroux

“Three minutes of video for three weeks of travel, three countries, three cultures (and three tee-shirts in my backpack !). I took a train ticket for the Trans-Siberian railway, in order to reach Beijing from Moscow, crossing Mongolia. I travelled alone with my bag, half-filled with my video gear. At that time, I didn’t knew that my ticket for that seat 22 would be the beginning of a once in a lifetime journey.”

Racing Time” is a cinematic narrated adaptation of the poem Racing Time by Chris Woods, from his published collection of poems “Dangerous Driving” (2007).

Filmed and Directed by: Adele Myers & Ra Page

Narrated by: Josh Moran

Music by: LZN02

Runner: Roger Ashby

Produced by: Comma Film

Inspired by the poet’s neighbour Ron Heaton, a 70-year-old fell runner. Woods was impressed by Heaton’s resolve to run in all weathers. The story behind this poem and the words thus inspired the film makers to create a work where the audience travel with him.

Cinematic time-lapse short film on Lake Hallstatt, which has been referred to as the “melancholic lake”, the “still fjord” and the “vision of a perfect mountain lake”. It is a classic relic of the Ice Age and it has a total area of 8.58 square KM lying between the steep Obertraun and Hallstatt mountains and Bad Goisern. It is the fifth largest of the Salzkammergut lakes.

The Tell-Tale Heart is a 1953 American animated short film directed by Ted Parmelee and narrated by James Mason. The screenplay by Bill Scott and Fred Grable is based on the 1843 short story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Directed by: Ted Parmelee

Produced by: Stephen Bosustow

Written by: Bill Scott and Fred Grable

Narrated by: James Mason

Music by: Boris Kremenliev

Produced at: United Productions of America

The plot focuses on a murderer whose increasing guilt leads him to believe he can hear his victim’s heart still beating beneath the floorboards where he buried him. Seen through the eyes of the nameless narrator, the surrealistic images in the film help convey his descent into madness.

Paul Julian served as both designer and color artist for film, and Pat Matthews was the principal animator.

In May 1953, pre-production started on The Tell-Tale Heart, which originally was intended to be a 3-D film. It is not known if the film was animated in this fashion, but it was not released in 3D. There is no reference to 3D in a technical trade review.

A Cinematic Short Film Trailer of Casey Gannon and Colin Arisman’s 5-month, 2668 mile journey in 2013 on foot from Mexico to Canada across the wilderness of California, Oregon, and Washington along the Pacific Crest Trail.

Filmed and Directed by: Colin Arisman

Produced by: Casey Gannon and Colin Arisman

Music by: Seba Lay

“The film is a non-commercial project and has been a labor of love for us. We are honored that Only The Essential has received the support of the Pacific Crest Trail Association.”

A Cinematic Poem Short Film from David “Joseph” McCannon, an international filmmaker and photographer, originally from Atlanta, Ga. Jeremy Irons narrates an excerpt from “The Wasteland” written by poet T.S. Eliot.

This documentary short film showcases the modern Cuba that few Americans have seen. It is set to excerpts from the poem, “Two Homelands,” by the famous Cuban poet José Martí. It was filmed in Havana and Matanzas, Cuba, in August 2011.

In the spring of 2013, Canadian adventurer Bruce Kirkby crossed the Georgia Straight from Vancouver to Victoria on an inflatable standup paddleboard. In this award-winning short film, he contemplates the true meaning of adventure.

Time-Lapse Short Film inspired by the makers of All I. Can, Baraka, TimeScapes

Filmed, Edited And Directed By: Reid Gower

Music By: Data (“Blood Theme”)

Humans are part of the natural order. We’re risen apes that acquired language and learned to use tools. Skyscrapers and spacecraft may seem unnatural, but they’re just as much a part of the natural order as beaver dams and bird nests. Boring electrical lines hint at the energy solution of a mammalian species. Open your eyes to the world you’ve grown accustomed to, and rejoice in the fact that you can participate in the human project.

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"...underneath the young gray dawn,
a multitude of dense, white fleecy clouds,
were wandering in thick flocks along the mountains,
shepherded by the slow, unwilling wind." From "Prometheus Unbound" by Percy Bysshe Shelley